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Photographs of the Fourteen Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, September and October 1898 BYU Studies Quarterly Volume 56 Issue 4 Article 8 2017 Photographs of the Fourteen Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, September and October 1898 Richard Neitzel Holzapfel Brigham Young University Ronald L. Fox Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq Part of the Mormon Studies Commons, and the Religious Education Commons Recommended Citation Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel and Fox, Ronald L. (2017) "Photographs of the Fourteen Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, September and October 1898," BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 56 : Iss. 4 , Article 8. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol56/iss4/8 This Artwork is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in BYU Studies Quarterly by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. Holzapfel and Fox: Photographs of the Fourteen Apostles of The Church of Jesus Chris Figure 1. Funeral of the Late President Woodruff, in the Tabernacle, at Salt Lake City, September 8, 1898, Charles R. Savage, photographer (PH 9125, 29.5 × 24 cm on mount 40 × 30 cm), Church His- tory Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City. This interior view was taken from the east end of the Tabernacle and captured the moment Franklin D. Richards, one of the fourteen Apostles, was offering the invocation at the funeral. The mount preserves valuable information printed in gold lettering, including the name of the photographer, location, setting, and date. The Church’s fourteen Apostles are seated in two rows below the Mormon Tabernacle Choir female members, dressed in white. Published by BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017 1 BYU Studies Quarterly, Vol. 56, Iss. 4 [2017], Art. 8 PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPHIC Photographs of the Fourteen Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, September and October 1898 Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Ronald L. Fox inety-one-year-old Wilford Woodruff, fourth President of The NChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died unexpectedly at 6:40 a.m. on Saturday morning, September 2, 1898, during a visit to San Francisco, California.1 Woodruff’s well-attended funeral was held six days later, at 10 a.m. on Thursday, September 8, 1898, at the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah.2 Sixty-six-year-old George Teasdale, one of the Church’s fourteen Apostles, reported, “Weather sunshine and fair Arose early and . went to Woodruff villa and saw the body of our beloved President laying in state. saw the body borne into the hearse and the family placed in the carriages and then entered our carriage and joined the procession to the Tabernacle. At the Tabernacle we took our seats on the stand and attended the services.”3 The scene in the Tabernacle was preserved by Charles R. Savage in a stunning photograph measuring 40 × 30 cm or 15.7 × 11.8 inches (fig. 1).4 Savage was, by 1898, a well-known and experienced photographer with 1. George Q. Cannon to Joseph F. Smith, September 2, 1898, Joseph F. Smith Papers, 1854–1918, Correspondence, Letterpress copybooks, Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City. 2. “Consigned to the Tomb,” Deseret News, September 8, 1898, 1. 3. George Teasdale, Journal, September 8, 1898, 241–42, George Teasdale Papers, 1853–1906, MS 13496, Church History Library. 4. Another print of the funeral photograph has survived with a handwritten note, in Joseph F. Smith’s hand, on the reverse side: “Jos. F. Smith Sept. 10. 1898 Compliments of C. R. Savage Pres. Woodruff’s funeral Sept. 8. 1898.” PH 2605, Church History Library. BYU Studies Quarterly 56, no. 4 (2017) 69 https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol56/iss4/8 2 Holzapfel and Fox: Photographs of the Fourteen Apostles of The Church of Jesus Chris 70 v BYU Studies Quarterly the necessary skills to capture an indoor scene like this one. Nelson Wadsworth, a well-known photographic historian, opines, “Of all the [Utah] photographers . , Savage was by far the most prolific and influ- ential. His inspiration spread far beyond the confines of his work.”5 Savage’s photo captured the moment when seventy-seven-year-old Franklin D. Richards stood at the pulpit offering a prayer at the beginning of the service (fig. 2). Richards noted in his journal that day, “Attended funeral—went with the procession & corpse from President WWs resi- dence in Farmers Ward to Big Tabernacle where I prayed and spoke.”6 More significantly, Savage captured the fourteen Apostles on the stand. This was not the first time Savage had photographed the Apostles in a group setting. In 1868, Savage took the earliest known photograph of the combined members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, a view that included Brigham Young and his counselors in the First Presidency, at a makeshift outdoor studio next to the Beehive House, Young’s home located at 67 East South Temple Street in Salt Lake City.7 However, in the 1898 Woodruff funeral photograph, Savage captures the fourteen Apostles at a time when they, as a quorum, began to preside over the Church, without an organized First Presidency in place. After the impressive funeral services, Woodruff’s casket was taken to the Salt Lake City cemetery, where it was removed from the hearse at exactly 2:45 p.m.8 Fifty-eight-year-old Francis M. Lyman, one of the fourteen Apostles, dedicated the grave in a heartfelt prayer.9 Then, according to Teasdale, “The coffin was lowered in a wealth of flowers into the grave. The flowers, florals emblems and baskets were numerous and lovely. The grave was covered with them.”10 Several Apostles who wrote about the day included an important detail about a group photography session. Teasdale wrote, “After the funeral obsequies we drove to Johnson the photographer and had a 5. Nelson B. Wadsworth, Set in Stone, Fixed in Glass: The Great Mormon Temple and Its Photographers (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1992), 124. 6. Franklin D. Richards, Journal, September 8, 1898, Richards Family Col- lection, 1837–1961, MS 1215, Church History Library. 7. Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and R. Q. Shupe, Brigham Young: Images of a Mormon Prophet (Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young Uni- versity; Salt Lake City: Eagle Gate, 2000), 204–5. 8. “The Line of March,” Deseret Evening News, September 8, 1898, 2. 9. “Line of March,” 2. 10. Teasdale, Journal, September 8, 1898, 241–42. Published by BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017 3 BYU Studies Quarterly, Vol. 56, Iss. 4 [2017], Art. 8 Photographs of the Fourteen Apostles V 71 Figure 2. Detail of figure 1, Funeral of the Late Wilford Woodruff, September 8, 1898, C. R. Savage, photographer; courtesy Church History Library. Top row at the pulpit, left to right: Brigham Young Jr., George Q. Cannon, Franklin D. Richards (slightly blurred, praying at the pulpit—standing in front of Lorenzo Snow, who is hidden from view), Joseph F. Smith, and John Smith, Church Patriarch (facing the pulpit). Second row, below, left to right: Francis M. Lyman, John Henry Smith, George Teasdale, Heber J. Grant (blurred), John W. Taylor (partial head view), Mar- riner W. Merrill, Anthon H. Lund, Matthais Cowley, Abraham O. Woodruff, and an unidentified individual. Other Church leaders are seated in the row below. Interest- ingly, George Q. Cannon and Joseph F. Smith were seated in their traditional chairs as members of the First Presidency, with Cannon on the right and Smith on the left of the chair reserved for the President of the Church—occupied during the funeral services by Lorenzo Snow. This arrangement most likely reveals the transition in succession to the Presidency, which was in process. group taken of the fourteen apostles.”11 Richards mentioned, “Rode in carriage with President G.Q. Cannon, Joseph F. Smith & Brigham Young to the grave then with the other 13 met at Sain[s]bury and Johnson & they took our likenesses in a group.”12 Forty-nine-year-old John Henry Smith, another Apostle, noted, “All of the Apostles went to Johnson’s Art Galery and sat for a group picture.”13 Fifty-four-year-old Anthon H. 11. Teasdale, Journal, September 8, 1898, 242. 12. Richards, Journal, September 8, 1898. Richards’s reference to “Sain[s]- bury and Johnson” reflects an earlier partnership between Charles E. Johnson and Hyrum Sainsbury in Salt Lake City that ended about 1893. 13. John Henry Smith, Diary, September 8, 1898, John Henry Smith diaries, 1874–1911, MS 5129, Church History Library, as quoted in Jean Bickmore White, ed., Church, State, and Politics: The Diaries of John Henry Smith (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1990), 407. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol56/iss4/8 4 Holzapfel and Fox: Photographs of the Fourteen Apostles of The Church of Jesus Chris 72 v BYU Studies Quarterly Lund, also an Apostle, recorded, “We left the graveyard and went to Bro Johnson studio and had our pictures taken together in a group.”14 Seventy-one-year-old George Q. Cannon, an Apostle and First Counselor to Woodruff in the First Presidency, mentioned the reason the fourteen Apostles gathered at Johnson’s studio following the funeral, “After the services at the grave, we drove to Brother Charles E. John- son’s photograph gallery, he having made a request that we should do so, and we stood in a group and had our pictures taken.”15 Fortunately, the fourteen Apostles accepted Johnson’s invitation to come to his studio so he could capture an important moment in Church history—a time when the Apostles became responsible for leading the Church following the death of a Church President.
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